Soft gold and the Pacific frontier: geopolitics and environment in the sea otter trade

The story of Euro-American fur trading dates back centuries to the Age of Discovery and the first explorers, settlers and traders who ventured to the North American Atlantic seaboard. By the late seventeenth century, England's Hudson Bay Company was chartered and beaver pelts had become a major...

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Main Author: Ravalli, Richard John
Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: eScholarship, University of California 2009
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